Re: IBM 7208-342 tape drive on a PC?

[Luis Rodriguez <luis.rodriguez2@xxxxxxxxx>]

David,

An alternative would be to use an LVD <-> HVD converter. I used to work with 
one and seem to remember it wasn't very expensive (at least that was our 
accountant told me :-) ).

The one we had was from Paralan (www.paralan.com)

regards,

Luis Rodriguez
(PS. Sorry about the late post)




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message: 8
date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:09:26 -0500
from: David Gibbs 
subject: Re: IBM 7208-342 tape drive on a PC?

Larry Bolhuis wrote:
>  It will work so long as you find yourself an HVD SCSI card.  99% of the
> SCSI cards you'll have laying around for PCs are all LVD. Any card that
> supports both disk units and tape units is going to be LVD. Those cards
> are out there but fairly rare and not cheap. If you plug it into an LVD
> card you may damage the card.

Oh!  Thank you for that.

Guess my plan is going to fail.

Oh well.

See my next message :)

david




Luis Rodriguez

IBM Certified Systems Expert
eServer i5 iSeries Technical Solutions
                
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